1. Psychosexual Development
Sigmund Freud
Psychosexual Development

2. Sigmund Freud 1856- 1939 Psychoanalytic Unconscious Dream Analysis
Free Association

4. What is Psychosexual Development?
Freud believed that adult personality problems were the result of early experiences in life.
He believed that we go through five stages of psychosexual development and that at each stage of development we experience pleasure in one part of the body more so than in others

5. What are Erogenous Zones?
Erogenous zones are parts of the body that have especially strong pleasure-giving qualities at particular stages of development.

6. What is Fixation?
Fixation is the psychoanalytic defense mechanism that occurs when the individual remains locked in an earlier developmental stage because needs undergo over-gratified.

7. Psychosexual development
Our personality develops throughout our childhood
Stage theory
Each stage is characterized by a focus on a different region of the body, where libido or sexual drive is fixated

8. Psychosexual Development
Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

9. Oral Stage 0-1
Mouth
Lips
Tongue
Sucking
Biting

10. Fixation Overindulgence Frustration
Symptoms include selfishness, dependency, compulsive talking
Frustration
Symptoms include nail biting, sarcasm, thumb sucking, greed

11. Anal Stage 1-3 years Membranes of rectum and anus
Fecal mass inside body
Release
Expulsion anally explosive
Control of feces anally retentive

12. Fixations Anal Expulsive Anal Retentive
Disorganized, self-confident, messy, sometimes artistic ability, rebelliousness, spontaneous, carefree
Anal Retentive
Miserly, organized, thrifty, orderly, obstinate, stubbornness, Type A personalities, compulsion for control

13. Phallic Stage 3-6 years Genital Organs Emotional Crisis
Oedipus Complex/Electra Complex
Critical Stage for moral development
Identification

14. Fixation Caused by failure to resolve Oedipus/Electra conflict
Symptoms: Exhibitionism, recklessness, vanity, pride, incapable of close love

15. Oedipus Complex Crucial stage
Consolidation of gender identity (identification)
Formation of superego
Mother/father fixation

16. Boys Wants to be like dad Fantasizes eliminating father
Castration anxiety
Identifies with father
Formation of gender roles, super-ego, and gender identity

17. Girls Penis envy Sense of inferiority Blames mother
Poor resolution of Oedipal complex
Poorly developed super-ego and a weaker moral sense compared with male

18. Latency Stage 6-Puberty
Phew! Sexual thoughts repressed- Sublimation
Child explores
Focus is on social and intellectual skills

19. Genital Stage Puberty - Adulthood
Sexual desires renewed
Individual seeks relationships with others

20. Personality Theory Id = libido and psychosexual stages
Ego = defense mechanisms
Super-ego = Oedipus complex Identification and internalization
These + defense mechanisms + external reality = personality